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Examples of molting
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Bigger fish have been falling for crayfish patterns since the craws are molting.
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The molting process begins as the insect's epidermis secretes a new epicuticle.
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Goldfinches molting from their drab winter plumage into brilliant lemon drops.
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Physiological stress during molting can reduce carotenoid deposits in the feathers.
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A solitary figure shuffles in like a molting heron wearing steel-rimmed spectacles.
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The crayfish pattern bite is slowing down as the crawdads hardened up after molting.
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The rigid cuticle inhibits growth, so arthropods replace it periodically by molting.
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Molting cycles run nearly continuously until an arthropod reaches full size.
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So Head and her team sifted through 2,000 plumes that had shed during molting season.
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- Periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
- Shed: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring"
- In biology, moulting or molting (both pronounced), also known as sloughing, shedding, or for some species, ecdysis) is the manner in which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body (often but not always an outer layer or covering), either at specific times of year, or at specific points ...
- (Molting (Arthropoda)) Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticula in arthropods and related groups (Ecdysozoa). Since the cuticula of these animals is also the skeletal support (the exoskeleton) of the body and is inelastic, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed. ...
- The skin or feathers cast off during the process of molting; To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc. and replace it by a fresh layer; To shed in such a manner
- (Molting) The shedding of the exoskeleton of crustaceans in order to grow.
- (molting) to lose the old skin or exoskeleton; similar to shedding
- (Molting) Or ecdysis, is the shedding of an old cuticle and formation of a new one.
- (Molting) The growing method of arthropods. The arthropod discards its original small exoskeleton and grows a new larger one
